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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 13.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Genet. 2010 Feb 17;40(4):452–466. doi: 10.1007/s10519-010-9346-0

Table 1.

Means, standard deviations and number of participants (n) for respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), heart rate (HR1 at rest 1, HR2 at rest 2), skin conductance level (SCL) and non-specific skin conductance response (NS-SCR), by sex and zygosity

Males
Females
DZ opposite sex
MZ DZ MZ DZ Males Females
Mean (Standard deviation)
RSA .11 (.07) .11 (.06) .11 (.07) .11 (.07) .11 (.07) .12 (.07)
N = 1,070 n = 240 n = 153 n = 242 n = 172 n = 127 n = 136
HR1 84.58 (11.97) 85.12 (9.55) 88.23 (11.90) 87.69 (11.54) 84.40 (11.81) 86.45 (10.94)
N = 1,078 n = 244 n = 155 n = 242 n = 174 n = 127 n = 136
HR2 82.27 (11.75) 83.34 (10.62) 86.48 (11.77) 86.52 (10.84) 81.89 (11.86) 84.67 (10.97)
N = 875 n = 197 n = 125 n = 203 n = 138 n = 105 n = 107
SCL 7.71 (4.51) 7.84 (4.08) 7.28 (4.56) 7.67 (4.22) 8.31 (4.66) 7.57 (3.54)
N = 1,133 n = 251 n = 158 n = 261 n = 184 n = 137 n = 142
NS-SCR 7.60 (8.15) 7.34 (7.33) 7.15 (8.32) 7.40 (7.64) 8.34 (7.80) 7.97 (6.91)
N = 1,069 n = 233 n = 143 n = 254 n = 171 n = 132 n = 136

MZ monozygotic, DZ dizygotic, N number of participants